Today, I got a package from UPS, left at our door, addressed to someone at a completely different address. I read the address with my phone, searched and found the owner's phone number. I called and the package owner's wife picked up the box.
Not much going on this weekend except the possible storm arrival. For all impacted, stay safe.
From austinpolitics.net/the-state-o…:
"I remember a couple years ago talking to a local businessman about Project Connect. 'If it doesn't go to the airport, what's the point?' he asked.
This is the kind of comment that would probably prompt vigorous nods of approval at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon but would make heads explode at a gathering of transit experts.
The idea that the purpose of public transit is to facilitate air travel is a more absurd version of the notion, popular among Sunbelt elites, that the point of public transit is to facilitate car travel by reducing car traffic.
(For the same reason that expanding highways doesn't reduce traffic, nor will public transit. The point of transit is not to make it easier to drive, it is to offer an alternative to driving.)"
Exactly.
The state of Project Connect
And should the train go to the airport?Jack Craver (The Austin Politics Newsletter)
Hello, we've just done a bugfix release of #GoToSocial v0.20.3, codename "Most Sinister Sloth 😈😈😈😈😈"!
codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…
This release contains some bugfixes for annoying little API issues, updates to robots.txt to forbid more so-called "ai" (🤢) crawlers, and a bugfix for polite interaction requests that will be useful when v0.21.0 comes out in a couple weeks.
If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0, v0.20.1, or v0.20.2, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.
If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.3 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!
If you are currently on a snapshot / nightly build, stay on the snapshot / nightly build, as it's already ahead of this release.
Thanks for reading!
v0.20.0 Sinister Sloth 😈 - superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
Here's version 0.20.0 of GoToSocial, **Sinister Sloth**. It's been a long summer of gently poking and prodding at the sloth's tummy and sides to make xem giggle.Codeberg.org
reshared this
youtu.be/3C1Gnxhfok0?si=0XJgTn…
39C3 - A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internetTrump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system...YouTube
I was told I'm too extremist/alarmist/whatever for saying this.
"Substack is not a nazi bar" "the analogy is incorrect".
oh I know. A few years ago it was like "we pay nazis writer". And in 2025 they even send a promotion mailing with swastica and everything.
But then look at Governments worldwide continue to post on the CSAM generator formerly know as Twitter. They didn't stop when its owner made the salute. Now they are saying there is nothing they can do about the CSAM. (litterally that what our Govt said, posting on said platform)
Obviously having a banker as a PM lead to not understanding science... (or just ignoring it)
It's Poilièvre with better speeches.
This text on resistance in Minneapolis reminds me so much of @pluralistic 's book "Little Brother". It shows that groups need not be powerless victims, even when facing evil.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:y…
#Minneapolis #democracy #FuckICE #nokings
Page by Margaret Killjoy | @margaret.bsky.social
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some prot…skywriter.blue
"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Come for the quote, stay for the text.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:y…
Page by Margaret Killjoy | @margaret.bsky.social
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some prot…skywriter.blue
Liam Erven
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